vscode-haskell 2.8.1
The HLS team announces a new release for the vscode-haskell extension.
Important bug fix
We drop the explicit dependency on language-haskell to unblock people stuck on Cannot activate extension due to unknown dependency · Issue #1376 · haskell/vscode-haskell · GitHub.
Use multi-repl by default in cabal projects
We changed the default of the sessionLoading option to multipleComponents.
As a consequence, HLS should be more stable now as it uses the equivalent of cabal repl --enable-multi-repl to set up the GHC session correctly.
This only affects cabal projects.
If you run into issues, change sessionLoading back to singleComponent and report a bug 
The full release notes are here: Release Release 2.8.1 · haskell/vscode-haskell · GitHub